IN THE GLOAMING. The summer day Is dying, The drosy flowrets fold; Long shadow soft is lying On the green and gold. The brook, what is it snying, Or is it laughter sings, Some voice of joy was playing Among day's happy things? The brook is flowing, But not Hke summer Faint lights are on it gl 1t is the drift of dreams ~-John Vance Cheney, streams, wing By Charles J. Adams. Joshua Baker's downia the election of poard. In the | town where he | a rod eof iron, si when he was district in the legislature. nis intreduction inte public ereated within him an insa petite for otilce. He had been first shalrman of the school board for more years than we younger people could remember, and iu both ca) ww rode roughshod over tice. about the man, or been reelected Was an servant, the administration of an umpleasant tas The novelty of school board strong people of the Ridgeville. The was adopted, Mr Miss Samantha Deck Baker's partners possessed a Une educati culture, but fighting ability. more than made Samantha, who hs mind of her better than a When th known, was inevitamle, a awaited with Kee? came even soon hended, Joshua Baker and bhawed ing a week taken from the postofiice “Dear Sir,’ It 1 dersigned, Tes that be a meet! + & SC O00 1 1 Ww SCHOO nied tt itd le ived Le Iii he unlucky nt represent That was life, and It L ap Massachusets Lill d ruled with day us na e 1 1 his 5 oO jable gelectman and aciti his eo} There was year eificlent and i with town affairs wa but associall k. which few cray placing women of | ly appealed tOWIn We first Abid became 8 in office. Was OWI, tile ¢ result everybody when 3 s - 1 ater, a pole Wer beg ive (oo Infor: will ward to there il Morrow evenis selectmen’s room for fh y 3 § the transaction o FILE And it was gs and written hand, lance. The Toshua's Miss =a in ati! anda yixat to te aloud, In On, response | £4 2a of it, he read a clear, deliberate theless, attempted hig disgust. That take. “Wall, I'll be ejaculated Silas Wiggans, the village blacksmith. “Pretty headstrong, ai the reins right into their own hands.” “Indeed they are But they will find they can gain no advantage over me by such a course. 1 shall at tend their meeting.” “Ye'd best not ventured Mr. Wiggins, ofter a short pause. “They'd be electing one of themselves chairman, and nobody knows what other nonsense, ‘Pears to me ye'd ought to be there, for the safety of the public, If for no other reason.” query as tae * HO ¥ never of mis which, wneealment frst Min nt they? Takin gir not stay away,” ly than before. “I believe you are gins,” he said, at last. “Yes, you are certainly right. My obligations to the public cannot be laid aside. tend the meeting and” right, Mr. Wig- raising his all to be present.’ It was customary In those days for the meetings of the school beard to be was seldom taken advantage of. On this occasion however, the selectmen’s room was crowded. Mrs, Abel and Miss Samantha were at first surprised, then vexed, when they understood that Joshua had especially invited the erowd to witness their defeat. Baman. tha's black eyes snapped dangerously. “We may as well begin at once,” she anid, as Joshua, the last of the three, sutered the room. “We'll Lallot for chairman first,” The committeewomen and the lone comuilifeeman seated themselves at the long table and prepared their bal lots. Samantha counted them, calmly taking this responsibility upon herself. There was one vote for each of the three members, Joshua's face was a study. Fle had never seriously doubt od that he wonld be elected at once, as te had been for so many years. The two women exchanged significant glances, The result wag not changed by the sdcond ballot, nor by the third, Final ly; when, after the ninth ballot, Miss Samantha announced that still there was no election, she held up her hand to stay Joshua, who was giready pre- paring his next vote. | i i | i { “One moment Mr. Baker,” she sald, grimly. “I guess this has gone about tar enough, We may as well under stand encn other right now. Neither Mrs. Ayres nor I want to be chairman, We've been voting each for the other vleht along, and we can Keep it up 2 spell longer if need be. That shows that have been voting self.” “Yon, you for your madam!’ exclaimed the now een AAV Oe shall contiue to jo, because I believe the orming the duties nember of board capable of of 1 por { chairman as they should be performs : “That's upted Sa all right,” Inter Ww are Hot, ant the office, we next ba you must things We kn how {io Ww you h have d vou didn’t lik ace SOTne how Rye enrried you refuse to put bull mombers vote motions e and other Of dozed generally t the committe: It's time to call halt. f in the presence cl you have invited here, to fairly, this committee ner, Grom wo [Ld 4 you will promise faithfully, these people that deal “ and to conduct in a parl we'll 1 sleet $e, We ead teadiock What titter had forever. A vhich andience, and A] For a mo him before bh begun the a into op in grew ito laugh, broke intha ceased speaking Joshua looked people and at the gOme enrig hearty finaily Sai n ipplanse ment about at the (£418 would wolnen like vio Put sede i held and that the sympathy : h Jffort and oss them all on his fhat his official cot nlons r hand, uppe the people was clea gainst m, hs trained himseld «1 na smile to hi gladly promi is right Baker bu the woe Joshua was humiliated op Humi tated the sams brows ie sors had ed on the year 1 wi tried ire beenme comfitur is & pow 1 ful FH Joshua viewed with alarm his waning til spring how. 1 hance fo sirine Miss Minx man Ahel and jon of a opposed had point that Misg Clay by Joshua won is only by id be given a trial, promis; shou should anuother vacancy occur during the year. Now spr the young man they had engaged was unable As he walked street quandary how to of 1 on the opening day { he ing term, Joshua received word that tO appear. i" up in avoid keeping his promise, he and Samantha ride past in the stage, apparently bound to the city. A wud den light broke upon him, He posted messengers to the houses of his absent fellow-committeemen to call a special meeting of the that noon, to | elect a new Then, feeling gure there could be no necting that day and that he was technically justified | In acting on his own account, he him- self hastened fo the young man he had long had in mind | for the position, i But Mrs. | had not board teacher, bel and Miss Samantha to the city. They o gone engaged had fatled them, and having in mind Joshua's promise, had decided to act on thelr own responsibility, with. out farther consultation. According ily they had merely gone down the rackd 8 mile or two by stage, to the home of Miss Clay, where they offered her the position. In short Miss Clay opened school that very morning, less than two hours after the regular open. ing hour. Finding Joshua's message, on thelr return home, the two women met again, shortly afterward, at the select. men's room, at the specified hour, but no Joshua appeared, Partly surmising the truth, and hughly enjoying their advantage, they elected Miss Clay per- manent teacher, and fixed her salary with due formality. Joshua's emotions, when he drove into town that evening with his im- ported teacher, defy expression. The story wus soon nolsed about, and his new defeat redoubled the former ridi- cule. The upshot of the matter was that he resigned from the board in great indignation, But that was not the end. At the next town meeting, although still a candidate for selectman, he was Igno- minlously defeated. Since that day be has run for several other offices, but his downfall is complete, and be has never been successful : Miss Samantha, having enjoyed her victory to the full, declined a reeloe- but Mrs. Abel Is still a member of the school board, and will be con- tinued there so long as she will consent to serve. —Youth's Companion. MARRIAGE BY FORCE Giants of Terra del Fuego Take Advantage of Their Strength. Dr. Frederick A. Cook tells of n lit. e-known race of aborigines in an ar AMacazine on “The Tierra del Fuego,” the Belgian An warringe » in the Century diant Indlans of visited on expedition, Of their he Marriage, ona, It fence customs Ww rites: Hike almost everything | fixed by established rules. | arranged conven not in is at the parties, have ¥ little to say about The b n i= made al most solely by the gud physical force ig the principal bond of union. For the bucks have of the contracting generally ory it, argai en, ages strongest been accustomed to steal women from neigh Owin The okt powerful | able cap supply of been from tribe. and boring elans of their Omnas, being by far the m been bral who Indians, have thus to ture and retain a wives, A in constant contact missionary fas with these Indians for thirty years has given it entirely peculiar emotions | their in and habits of life. The women satisfactory to another of the husband § relation to one who poxscss but one in common in the family wigwaimn novel the 3 that more reason for principal A gistoen i mutual | ives are often K. ihes by foree, i barter, oldest daughter Linself ing all of wealth of ragment Huplemoenis, cipnews, and bits of fur, and eae assemblage of £3 man is the He carries own i WOrs o Tt y1 it JY NA er of ATrTOWHS, on the horizon seldom stoops to anything Hike not ORE LIE manus labor that t actual is CONN “ ER MIRRORS ONE } oahb roll, and thir Laittas ACTORS strapped ad husbands, low the unepcumbered li af ve but ungallant arry, day ! id fornit i ud the portable port / en detail 1 eaped after day, ure, wis Cering resting h {to enjoy it should be are worthy husbands, fiercely to protect it a Crs of the Christian « gation that red man of the far south shoul be compelled Ins his life a the feet of the wirtless pale-faced in shield the of hl it wa ie They thelr that thes will own Hngh blow. is ing =k of ivili this to down hie + vaders to honor horn Fruit and Milk Hard to Get “Another deprivation that must al ways be sadly felt,” writes an Ameri can woman in Manila, “is the lack of fresh fruit and sweet milk, There is not such a thing as a berry of any sort cherry or any small fruit. The insiple banana, the mango apple and mange stems are plentiful, It is true, and ir the of lettuce, toma toes, cucumbers and a poor quality of voet corn may be had, and, as a mat tor of course, anything and everything that i= canned, but what woman whe | herself puts.up her own fruit, or super vises 11, wilk eat tinned abominations or is willing to use condensed milk’ Nearly all tales of foreign countries feave one in the same frame of ming that characterized the Scotchman fron Peebles. who, after visiting Glasgow | and Edinburgh, said: ‘They may | gran’, yon cities: 1 dinna doot it-<bu Peobles for mel” way vegetables Why She Kept the Map. noticed that his cook had stuck up It | her kitchen a map of South Africa with the British possessions colored red, the Transvaal brown, the Orang Free State yellow, and Portuguese ter ritory green. “Do you take an inter oat in the war, Mary?" he asked. “No gir,” replied the cook, “but I mean 4 ‘ave a skirt Uke that brown bit, and | blouses lke them other colors; and I'm just keepin’ the map to sodteh the patterns with when 1 get a hevenin hoff, sir!” — A Large Diamond. The “Light of Kimberley” Is the name given to the great diamond found jast year in the Kimberley diamond mines of South Africa, which has been sent to the Paris Exposition, It is said to be worth $2,005,000, I' is exceeded in valve, diamond experts gay, by only one diamond in the world the famous Koh--noor brilliant which is one of Queen Victoria's crows jewels. The Kob-l-noor is valued at £4.000,000, VICTIMS OF CALISAYA. TERRIBLE EFFECTS FROM THE USE OF YELLOW CINCHONA BARK. Authorities of Insane Asylums Have Be | gun to Note the Presence of the Calisava Toper — A Urug that Eats Away the | Brain's Thought Centers, found way | Chicago in New | Calisays has is the drink The us City a finally of the liver, of the York a means ‘of stimulating | tue stomach of dissipated men and wo | men has already attracted attention | from physicians, Authorities of insane | note the | aya vietim,” al ie hag been more many into high © drug 8 asylums have also begun 10 presence of the “enlis though it is probable or less in existence for a great it is not it was uncommon n king man years past, #0 Ver thant y long ago | in the order west 10 nk callsayn in connection with his liquor, In fact, | hamed to do so if he under: | have dri he was ns stood Its use, and generally took it in his or through | of a quite a the piivacy of the cian, FoOins lenient phys: fad to the delusion prescription Now it | the Hquor and callsaya in ing permanently as gerves protected from I man = mix that the body lg Ix and the evil effect of too much si nulant, saw the other who had «1 too much whi H. LL Herald, called my of under pur . # . pose of belng “" ¢ § ug yi the day the brain of a a and the combination of caligaya, writes | died from sky land A kk in Chicago Times ‘al Clive jan has also 0 CABS for the 1 Callsayt reaches sysiem the heart and the about the same time--not quit quickly ax small doses of arsenic or medical do of str yohnia, enough to produce nt ye form of di who « of calisayn desired beneficial assistance is then has in Nn making a ost iD wast pecessary and | reason certificate apse to some other cinchona bark. CORN IN AMERICAN HISTORY. is the Most Valuable Product Unlied of the States. “The which the Unites [Ha KIng au in the Paris chiefly at interest $ inter x ££ onomic, Stator is taking in ing i fried af corn of wmrse.” exhibit tion 1600 | Louis fie Ril¥s the wt ain nied Democrat, “Corn ix able of all the it than any other one art produc Ff the 1d Slates, this country. More tend Corn crops which (00 bushel won in recent oubtedly oe 1 } qr future it he country to popul of food in the rest of poy corn nt greatest ible extent “faz tn it ohne time to have figured In the United Bia as it O eg just as promanels = CounLr The ytinent OW diy in development men on this « 55 the extent to guUrps the Indians used this cereal fig an The length of time could cle of fool. the red me conduct « 0a i suppl through the { snail of oresis on a which tis wouid into and dried corn, 3 tin meal with stol and es pound a ¢al Taw, at other LIMes iuto a sort of bread, or roast it was a revelation » Bpanis aud English ferrilory onr, French present the sr} 1 1.000.000 bushels ¥ as great as Lhe) Dirt and Art »Valaes” “Dirt & . . * i Lona, or chinchena, Is so called | Chin near | vice after the Countess of Chinchon, si Ix a community in Spain Madrid, Tha wns the queen of Pern, who, in 1638, was cured | of use of cinchona bark, | 1 in making the rem- | ch Counicss fever by the who ass) The bark from the drug is made comes from ti natives of oslombia to Bolivia fy on the eastern slopes st age altitude of from 5,000 t fore are found t vian or einchona bark There are about forty ecinchona bark CONBGQUENCON. which | a genus | the An- growing an avers S000 feet, of Peru. of quinipe. but the COMME is pro duced by about dozen. The barks commonly found at apy pharmacy are chiefly Peruvian bark, calisaya and red na. Ordinary cinchona bark is valuable as a remedy in fevers and as a general tonie, but the alkaloids ob tainable from the bark have in prac | tiee largely taken the place of the bark | itself. If tne calisaya toper could con dine himself to medicinal doses he prob. | COE, . Clin he sources and Epecies, of a ciach . [ asked Dr. Frank N. Dound, a stu dent of calisayie victims, what particn. tar ill effect local users of the drug | would feel, aside from those I have mentioned, He said that they would be particularly liable to attacks of | la grippe, and that this poison in their | pystom would drive the la grippe to the head, with temporary or perma. nent insanity following. A person ad- dieted to the use of callsaya Is much more apt to take Ia grippe in ita severe or fatal form. Dr. Doud noted also that hard drinkers who suddenly ceased the use of liquor eventually take ealisayn ns a subtitutes and find that they have jumped from the frying pan into the fire, He deplores the use of eallsaya In social drinking because of its damning effect upon the nerve centers. As the habit is rapidly grow- ing In Chicago drinking circles we shall soon have for treatment the cali saylc heart, the calisayle stomach and tke callsayle brain, with a fit termina- tion In a calisaylc Insane asylum or - . . . o¢metery. suall £1 CADVARCR on » store, and although they of art, 1 couldn’t them at any figure. They wer in oft by a young French painter an head and the a scape, and they were well worth original price of $100 apiece There ivy works ideal other few i that oped a nots kb ticketed them I put on after a months cut down to £0 and then dr at a time until 1 finally at £8.49 for the pair tag partly as a joke and partly because 1 was mad, but I must considerably surprised when nobody took the Then 1 had idea. 1 took tw Di torres oul of handsome slapped them into a couple of shabby giit frames, put back the first price and sent them over 10 a second-hand store in the Old Quarter. The place 1 nin speaking of Is beyond doubt the dirtiest den fo town. It is cluttered up with broken furniture, smells like 2 morgue aud hasn't been swept the year 1, but nevertheless it is a great resort for Northern curio hunt ers. They imagine they make ‘discov ories’ there, and sure enough, In less # % Sask eonfess 1 war up proposition, their ‘shadow boxes, a bargain as it wag, but the episode it discouraging. I'm thinking of dis ing a few trash barrels around the store. Then, may be, I'll be able to art on the premises. --New Orleans Times Democrat, ————" What the Boer Has Dome. The Boer Las not been without his uses In the world scheme of civiliza tion, Like the American back woods man, he has blazed the way for the march of progress, His bold and rest. jess spirit has pointed out a path to the crowding nations of the old world, fils have been the privations, his the toll and his the peril. But his func tion is at an end; civilization proases at his heels; the land from which he drove out the Kaffir calls for a denser population. He must submit to ah sorption or perish. For the present he , refuses to be absorbed. ~The Forum. # co THE JOKERS’ BUDGET. That Morning Growl ue coffee she serves in & pot that Is quaint gets Hy nerves It would madden a It fs muddy dnd cold it Ix faint; (E341 And so wenk Ay cup could not hold Much more grounds for complaint his Record. 120 This Serious World Berio world” {t's $0 serious that Boston Courier, man, 10i8 18 A The Savage Bachelor, “Anyway,” sald the Thing, “it is the man scared at a wedding.” “Of “" Nw eel 1 OUND who 18 Lhe most course,’ “he «! ¥ 11s LANA POLLE the Savag said the t Or; moEt nas Press Time to Attack attack on Koff yfont made before bred Bellefield “Sou cert iy has Laing ave be Mr The ein should ikfast,” remarked strong grounds added Mr Tele vour wz Re stion.™ urg Chronicle at] ai Lessons inC “What did 1 threaten {oo behead you antry. he empress dowager 2 for?” ny manners,” the thron Wash said forgot when ington en by Surprise, you T Dorn his A hicago upon A Womar's Discovery. ‘1 used t r people.” Belinda--"Don’t you « He—*No. FT Isabell o sacrifice myseu pow?” people and | better roll it, able and ¢ Press The Mysterious Code. flow happily the Vou Grootses SOC her have her does she jet Choosing a Wife, 3 One cannot Delp falling in who ancsoine Woman to dress reel! - but when a man chooses who than dress her x ¢ y “ wiser {0 Choose ohe a i ¥ lobster nly The Creat Obstacle. erving f when she up.’ “yy \fa “ ell, what's she Yolie je Stickelbat marry a strong d Plain Dealer, t i won't minded cvelan Her Earnest Suggestion thinking,” sald Mr, Staylate, tting one of those fashionable Do you think it would be pe? It's all the go, you 0 hint the thing fort know. “All the go, eh? she sa'd, stifilng a “Got one, by all means. It's what you need."-—Philadelphia n, yawn just Pross. A Matter of Doubt don't know whether to ge sarried or go to the gold digeings.” Tom--“Why don’t you ask the girl™ Jack—*1 have asked ber.” Tow--“What did she say if Jack “Khe said get mar ted.” Tom--"Then why don’t you?” Jack—"She suggested another girl” ~Detroit Free Press, A Mean insinuation. “There wag & time” excinimed young Spenders, who had gouve through Jack-—""1 1 Lad more money than brains. They can’t say it now.” “NoY' queried the caustic cad. “No. I'm down to my last peony.” “Ah. but you have the penny.” Phil adelphia- Press, Expectation and Realization “Yon want a place ns office-boy “Yes, sir.” “Where are you from? “Roston.” “Al! How much pay per week de you want?’ “1 want a hundred dollars, Rie” “A hundred dollars?” wyou sir. “That's what 1 want, but 1 expect to get about three dollars.” Kystified, eafamma, my birthday comes this year on Monday, doesu’'t RLY “Yes, deaf.” “And last year it wae on Bunday, wasn't it?’ “You, dear” “Did it cqmwe on Saturday year be- fore last?” “Yeu, dear” “Mamma, how many days in the week was 1 born on?” ,
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